Sorry about the last email. I accidentally sent my email without ever
typing anything in. Anyways...
I've been trying to get my Sendmail server to use authentication to send
emails. Right now I can get by with just using my 'access' file and
allowing my home network's IP address, but when we go on vacation, I
can't send emails without creating a tunnel with putty to my server at
home to make Sendmail think I'm sending it from localhost.
The problem is I can't get authentication to work. I've followed a
couple different tutorials on-line, and by all appearances, it should
work, but it doesn't.
First, the text below is the settings I added to sendmail.mc. This is
where I deviate from some of the tutorials. Many of them also set up for
encryption, but until I get at least this part to work, I don't even
want to think about that, though I'll probably add that in later sometime.
define(`confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A')dnl
TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
And then I just want to login with my system accounts and not have to
worry about keeping SASL accounts in sync with my system (stored in an
LDAP server) accounts, I have this in my /usr/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf file:
pwcheck_method:pam
I've left my /etc/pam.d/smtp file alone since it seemed to be what I wanted:
#%PAM-1.0
auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth
account required pam_stack.so service=system-auth
And the /etc/pam.d/system-auth file was generated at setup time to use
LDAP and works for everything else (SSH, Local login, etc), so I didn't
even consider that the problem.
When I try to send an email, Thunderbird asks me for my password (after
I put my username in the properties for my SMTP server, of course) and
it fails. I can enter my password a couple different time, but it always
fails.
When I shut down Sendmail service and run it from the command line with
'sendmail -bD -X /tmp/test.log', this is what I get in my test.log file:
15105 <<< EHLO [127.0.0.1]^M
15105 >>> 250-netserv Hello [192.168.1.1], pleased to
meet you
15105 >>> 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
15105 >>> 250-PIPELINING
15105 >>> 250-8BITMIME
15105 >>> 250-SIZE
15105 >>> 250-DSN
15105 >>> 250-ETRN
15105 >>> 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN
15105 >>> 250-DELIVERBY
15105 >>> 250 HELP
15105 <<< AUTH PLAIN {REMOVED FOR SECURITY}^M
15105 >>> 535 5.7.0 authentication failed
15105 <<< AUTH LOGIN^M
15105 >>> 334 {REMOVED FOR SECURITY}
15105 <<< {REMOVED FOR SECURITY}^M
15105 >>> 334 {REMOVED FOR SECURITY}
15105 <<< {REMOVED FOR SECURITY}^M
15105 >>> 535 5.7.0 authentication failed
15105 <<< QUIT^M
15105 >>> 221 2.0.0 netserv closing connection
Now this is where I get stuck. I have no clue what the problem is. If
anyone could help, I'd VERY much appreciate it. If you need some more
information or need me to get the output of some command, I'd be happy
to do it and send the information back to you.
With great thanks,
Justin Willmert
